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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1943
Page
9
Patrick J. Flannery, executive officer of the War Price and Rationing Board, said yesterday that demands for the purchase certificates are running ahead of the real quota. The demand also is ahead of the
Mr Flannery said September tire quota was cut about 50 percent causing delays in freight and other operations. Truck owners can seek help from the rubber director via the Office of Defense Transportation after trying at least three sources. Albany district ODT will arrange allocations once the search fails. OPA announces better camelbacks for recap and Grade C recaps replacing Grade FL. Four hundred Cornell naval cadets volunteer to aid Cortland County farmers in harvesting string beans.
In Washington the First Dog Fala loses the coveted No 1 dog tag as metals dwindle. The No 1 tag goes to the President’s press secretary Steve Barry, with No 2 to Col. Lewis T. Ross’s bull-fox terrier and No 3 to J Edgar Hoover’s hound. Whiskers, James Byrnes’s dog, gains daily attention as a rival in fame.
Pvt Alvah E Donnell 19 of Whitefield Mass recuperating at Army General Hospital Atlantic City said he accounted for three Nazi machine gunners in North Africa by paying with three five cent candy bars to Arabs who guided him and comrades to nests. He added the Arabs preferred Americans since they did not reclaim the candy.
Officials kept silent on Marcus Island action as Imperial Japanese HQ claimed “game damage” and that 160 U S bombers and fighters joined the raid. Tokyo said 12 U S planes were shot down while a carrier task force bombed Marcus Island and damaged ground installations and grounded planes.
The Troy Boys' Club presented its Day Camp report detailing 253 participating boys, a seven day week schedule from 9 30 a m to 8 30 p m, and a total of 902 playground users. Former staff member Timothy F Sweeney CM2C Seabees on leave visited.
The crafts report tallies 98 total articles from 28 sessions with 519 boys involved across 162 sessions and 2,768 total participant events. Pyrography covers 50 boys yielding 54 articles in 36 sessions, airplane modeling shows 86 files in 47 sessions, desk calendars involve 48 boys producing 48 articles in 36 sessions.
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